Title: On the relationship between trading network and WWW network: a preferential attachment perspective

Authors: Andri Mirzal

Addresses: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Kita 14 Nishi 9, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan

Abstract: This paper describes the relationship between trading network and WWW network from preferential attachment mechanism perspective. This mechanism is known to be the underlying principle in the network evolution and has been incorporated to formulate two famous web pages ranking algorithms, PageRank and Hypertext Induced Topic Search (HITS). We point out the differences between trading network and WWW network from preferential attachment perspective, derive the formulation of HITS-based ranking algorithm for trading network as a direct consequence of the differences, and apply the same framework when deriving the formulation back to the HITS formulation that turns to become a technique to accelerate its convergences.

Keywords: acceleration method; HITS; preferential attachment; trading networks; WWW networks; world wide web; internet; web pages; web page ranking; trading activities; trade.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2010.033361

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, 2010 Vol.5 No.3, pp.247 - 268

Published online: 01 Jun 2010 *

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